Wayne Koestenbaum

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1) The cheerful scapegoat: fables

Author

Koestenbaum, Wayne

Series

Semiotext(e) / Native Agents

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

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"Wayne Koestenbaum's first book of short fiction: a collection of whimsical, surreal, baroque, ribald, and heartbreaking fables."--Provided by publisher.

2) Jackie under my skin: interpreting an icon

Author

Koestenbaum, Wayne

Pub. Date

1995.

Language

English

Formats

Book, Large Print

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Jackie Under My Skin is a nuanced description of how Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis transformed our definitions of personal identity and style. As Wayne Koestenbaum follows her into America's dreamwork, far from pious "family values," he dares to see her as a pleasure principle, a figure of Circean extravagance, and liberates her from the propagandistic uses to which her image if often harnessed.

3) Figure it out: essays

Author

Koestenbaum, Wayne

Pub. Date

2020.

Edition

First Soft Skull edition.

Language

English

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LGBTQIA+ Pride Month

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""Toward what goal do I aspire, ever, but collision? Always accident, concussion, bodies butting together . . . By collision I also mean metaphor and metonymy: operations of slide and slip and transfuse." In his new nonfiction collection, poet, artist, critic, novelist, and performer Wayne Koestenbaum enacts twenty-six ecstatic collisions between his mind and the world. A subway passenger's leather bracelet prompts musings on the German word for stranger;...